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Crash and Burn(out)

My laptop died. I would say it’s a writer’s worst nightmare, but that sort of minimizes the impact of a rejection, doesn’t it? LOL. At any rate, I lost some of my edits to HMW – only about three chapters’ worth – and I swear the LAST thing I want to do is re-do them. I made the first edits, send the file to my crit partner, and fiddled more after her comments. All I lost was the latter amount of fiddling since I still have those emails (attachments and all) but the idea of going back to that manuscript AGAIN … ugh!

It’s not that I don’t love the story, because I do. Heck, I BE-love the story. I think the problem stems from the fact that I’ve been working on it forever. I got very little accomplished for weeks at a time (I spent those weeks experiencing “morning sickness” all day long on the bathroom floor) and, worse, I’ve been “finished” since April. That’s a LOOONG time to edit, but I had a lot of hiccups. Bed rest, new baby, new book release (no actual hiccups). ‘Nuff said? LOL. Frankly, I’m tired of looking at it, but I still think it’s a fantastic story and I can’t wait to submit it.

As for the burnout, I suspect I’ve got a cure for that in the works. What writer isn’t inspired by a brand new computer? =cP

About Sarah Ballance

Sarah and her husband of what he calls “many long, long years” live on the mid-Atlantic coast with their six young children, all of whom are perfectly adorable when they’re asleep. She never dreamed of becoming an author, but as a homeschooling mom, she often jokes she writes fiction because if she wants anyone to listen to her, she has to make them up. As it turns out, her characters aren’t much better than the kids, but nevertheless, you’ll find her writing sexy contemporary romance for Entangled Publishing until they throw her out. To learn more, visit http://sarahballance.com.